I Will Survive

One insomniatic night

I awoke to stretch and get a drink

when I saw this stupid red ant climbing

climbing up from my bathroom sink...

He was climbing up and singing 

Gloria Gaynor "I Will survive

as long as I know how to love 

I know I'll be alive."

I said, "Shut the hell up Ant

I'm trying to get some sleep"

I turned the faucet fully to heat

and watched it slowly sink 

Then a week later the ant climbed

climbed back up from my bathroom sink

singing "I've got all my life to live

all my love to give, I will not shrink"

And I said, "So your back

Your back from outer-space"

I unscrewed the top off some bleach

poured, and observed the worried look on his face.

And as he screamed and cried

I wondered why his life was so obsolete

He only wanted to survive

While I created impossible out of possibly

What is an ant to a human?

What's mankind's leap to a god's step?

After all, Gloria Gaynor only sang of survival

because she was someone's pest.

And out of this I realized

the fragility of life and all our breaths

The slightest jolt to the Earth's axis

could mean the beginning of all our deaths.

But then the ant climbed out the drain again

Complaining then holding his head up high

singing, "weren't you the one

who tried to hurt me with goodbye."

I thought survive? Survival?

Surely this isn't all that's reserved to me

So I smashed the ant into the sink

and hoped, in death, the ant felt complete.

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[Kainan Corrales]

the relevance, or lack thereof, of life in comparison with others.